The spread of Islam, from its heartland in the Middle East and North Africa to India and Southeast Asia, revealed the power of the religion and its commercial and sometimes military attributes.
End segregation in all public education. Brown v. Board of Education declared it unconstitutional to have segregated public schools leading to the desegregation of all schools following the 1954 decision.
A commercially successful steamboat :)
They were 18 years old. (2004)